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Have you ever wanted to watch artists create fresh brushstrokes on canvas in the art market of Montmartre? To see the Tour de Eiffel sparkle as if arrayed with diamonds? To sip a Burgundy wine at a Parisian café?

If you want to experience Paris first-hand, The College of Idaho alumni relations office has a “study abroad” trip for you.

During September 2015, retired C of I professors Jim Angresano and Elizabeth Angresano will lead a group of alumni on a 12-day trip to Paris.

A new season of Coyote basketball begins this fall at The College of Idaho, and the C of I basketball coaches want students, fans, season ticket holders and the entire Caldwell community to get to know their teams before the regular season tips off.

While playing soccer at The College of Idaho, recent graduate and former goalkeeper Colin Benham-Marin ’14 didn’t win any all-conference awards. He wasn’t a big name.

But after five years of donning purple and gold, Benham-Marin is working to make his dream of playing professionally a reality. Benham-Marin burst onto the scene this summer after joining Wenatchee FC, a team in the newly formed Evergreen Premier League in Washington (EPLWA). He immediately made his presence felt, earning back-to-back shutouts on his way to the West Coast Goalkeeping Safe Hands award.

The College of Idaho honored three outstanding alumni during the recent Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony, which took place Oct. 16 in the Langroise Center as part of Homecoming week. Read more about the winners below. Congratulations to these outstanding alumni!

Distinguished Young Alumni Award: David Papiez ’05

After graduating cum laude from The College, Papiez took a job as a ski instructor at Tamarack Resort and soon climbed the ladder to asset manager and controller.

The College of Idaho is set to host guest speaker Dr. Paul Weissman as part of the American Astronomical Society’s Harlow Shapley Visiting Lectureships in Astronomy program. Weissman will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30 inside the Langroise Center for Performing and Fine Arts on the C of I campus in Caldwell. The event is free and open to the public.

The College of Idaho will host visiting composer Dr. Michael John Trotta as part of an interdisciplinary panel discussion and musical event Tuesday, Oct. 14. The public event, titled “Surely, You Are in This Place,” begins at 7 p.m. in the Langroise Center for Performing and Fine Arts on the C of I campus in Caldwell as part of the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Lectureship in Judaic Studies.

Homecoming festivities promise to be bigger and better than ever this year at The College of Idaho as the first Homecoming football game in 37 years joins a long list of exciting events for alumni, students, faculty, staff, families and the entire C of I community.

The recently renovated Whittenberger Planetarium reopens Friday, Oct. 3 with its first public show of the school year inside Boone Hall on The College of Idaho campus in Caldwell. The Planetarium, which now has new cove lights and handicapped access, will feature comets and comet landing for the 7 p.m. show in anticipation of the Rosetta mission’s plan to land on a comet in November. The show, which costs $5 for adults or $2.50 for children ages 4-17, also includes an overview of the current constellations and planets visible in the Idaho night sky.

The College of Idaho has set an enrollment record for the third consecutive year, with 1,144 students enrolled for the 2014-2015 academic year according to official tenth-day figured released by the C of I institutional research department. This year’s enrollment is the highest in the history of the Caldwell liberal arts college, topping the previous high of 1,122 set last year.